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Careers & Volunteering

Will you join us? ARC teams are reimagining humanitarianism for the 21st Century. We are on a mission to transform our work to be more human, impactful, relevant and authentic. The world’s problems are tougher than ever, but we also see an unprecedented opportunity to bring a world full of amazing people together to work on these hard challenges.

Let’s Do Something

ARC often hosts events and opportunities open to the public, and we speak to community groups all the time. We also love new ideas and the chance to work with new people and groups to make change in the world. You can find ways to get to know us and get involved or reach out to an ARC team member to simply ask a question or inquire about how we might work together.

Many Ways to Give

We believe that giving is an incredibly personal experience – and that’s why people choose to give in so many different ways. But deciding how to give can also be an overwhelming experience. We’ve compiled some of the most common ways that people choose to support refugees and the American Refugee Committee. Please use the information provided as a guide but know that at the American Refugee Committee we remain open to new and different ways of giving.

Emergency Response

When disaster strikes anywhere in the world, people can suddenly find themselves without a home, without a way to make a living, without basic services like water and sanitation. In these situations, families are incredibly vulnerable, and often fall victim to exploitation, disease, and famine. They need their basic needs covered, quickly and efficiently.

Responding from the start

ARC traces its beginnings as an organization back to our first emergency response effort on the Thai-Cambodian border in 1979. It’s in our blood. In an emergency situation, if we have the capacity to respond effectively, we will. We don’t make these choices lightly – we go when we can make an impact, and where there is a clear gap in services that we specialize in. Depending on the nature of the emergency, that can be a variety of things – from distributing food relief during the Somali famine, running Ebola Treatment Units in Liberia, building emergency shelters for Burundian refugees in Rwanda, to establishing water and sanitation infrastructure for displaced families in Syria – we do what we can to save lives.

Sometimes, when there is a huge influx in refugees seeking safety in a neighboring country, we help to establish whole refugee camps and all of the infrastructure that goes with it. These pop-up communities are often in the middle of nowhere, and have no existing water, sanitation, health, or shelter infrastructure. In those cases, we coordinate the construction and management of services, partnering with other organizations to cover our respective areas of expertise. This was true for us most recently in Mahama Refugee Camp in Rwanda, where thousands of Burundian refugees began fleeing instability at home. In a matter of weeks, we constructed thousands of temporary shelters, built and staffed health facilities, and got a nutrition program focused on malnourished children up and running. We’re continuing to provide support to these families, our services evolving with their changing needs.